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33% chance of rain
[2] service operates in two sections: 1. Between Flatbush Av and Chambers St 2. Between Wakefield-241 St and Chambers St and via the [1] to/from South Ferry
Overnight [3] is suspended
In the Bronx, Woodlawn-bound [4] skips Burnside Av
No [6] between Hunts Point Av and 125 St
In Queens, Flushing-bound [7] skips 52 St and 69 St All trains at Woodside-61 St board from the Manhattan-bound platform
In Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, no Queens-bound [A] at Spring St, Canal St, Chambers St, Fulton St and High St
[E][F] trains are running with delays in both directions while we perform track maintenance in Queens.
In the Bronx, no [D] at Norwood-205 St
[J] trains are delayed in both directions while we conduct track maintenance near Essex St.
In Brooklyn, no [L] between Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs and Broadway Junction
No [N] between Queensboro Plaza, Queens and Times Sq-42 St, Manhattan
The state just promised what the federal government walked away from: a lawyer for every child who needs one in immigration court.
New York state is putting $7.25 million toward lawyers for roughly 1,400 unaccompanied migrant children after the Trump administration let the federal contract that funded their representation lapse July 31 [1][18]. DISPUTED: outlets differ on the lapsed contract's size, Documented reports it was worth $365 million, Gothamist puts it at $200 million [8][10]. Hochul announced the money alongside Mamdani and James in Manhattan, routing it through a coalition led by the Hispanic Federation [16][18]. The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 has required Washington to fund counsel for these children "to the greatest extent practicable" for nearly two decades, until this summer [8].
“These cruel, depraved decisions can be a death warrant for our kids whose only sin was being born in poverty or in a country consumed with political violence, and their parents decided they were better off leaving”
“The refusal to renew the contract with providers who specialize in this work is nothing more than a deportation order.”
“A child asking a deportation judge to support them in filling out an asylum application – that is the world we are living in right now”
Politics | Spectrum News NY1
Gothamist
A decade of protests just beat a decade of paperwork: the garden stays, and the housing goes somewhere else.
Mayor Mamdani's administration is expected to settle a decade-long fight over the Elizabeth Street Garden this week, canceling the 123-unit Haven Green affordable senior housing project planned for the Nolita site and building more than 180 affordable homes three-quarters of a mile away at 22 Suffolk Street instead [65][48]. Mamdani pins the reversal on predecessor Eric Adams, whose deputy mayor Randy Mastro designated the 20,000-square-foot lot as city parkland the week before last November's election [48][3]. Under New York's public trust doctrine, land already designated parkland cannot be built on without an act of the state Legislature, the mechanism that turned Mastro's move into a near-permanent block (Save the Sound).
“Those actions made it nearly impossible for us to move forward”
“The Adams administration used the machinery of city government, in bad faith, to kill 123 homes for low-income seniors that had survived every legal and public review thrown at them”
“Our older people deserve to live in neighborhoods where they don't feel like they're going to be assaulted”
Politics | Spectrum News NY1
6sqft
Three years into the city's phonics overhaul, the union that helped sell it is threatening to take its name off the door.
United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew is threatening to pull his union's backing for NYC Reads, the mandatory phonics curriculum City Hall adopted three years ago, after this spring's state exams showed reading proficiency for grades 3-8 fell 6 percentage points to about half of all students [86]. Mulgrew still supports requiring a common curriculum, the biggest shift under the mandate, but says the city has piled on excessive testing and city-approved intervention programs that don't line up with the reading curriculums schools already use [86]. A Department of Education spokesperson called the union's claims untrue and said the only real change last year was a new requirement for approved intervention programs [86].
“The Department of Ed. is completely incompetent and irresponsible in its implementation, and we are not going to stand by”
“What he’s saying is coming out of nowhere”
“I don’t think it stops the program”
When the MTA ripped the old staffed booths out of its subway kiosks, an artist duo called Data Vandals turned one into something better: a data-art gallery inside a defunct newsstand on the downtown 6 platform at 51st Street and Lexington Avenue, open Sundays 2 to 6 p.m., or "by appointment or happy accident" [105]. Past a mural mapping the country of origin for every one of the city's 8.8 million residents, a six-foot rat named Ratsy explains the stops on the 6 line, and station trivia fills the walls where a token booth used to be [105]. It might be the most New York use imaginable for a hole in a subway wall: turning dead space into an argument for why the data behind this city is worth stopping to read.